Chapter 382 Something went wrong
"I'm new here and don't know about this. Shopkeeper Hao is on the second floor. I'll take you up." The boy smiled.
"Trouble." Mo Lan nodded slightly.
"Please come this way!"
The boy led Mo Lan up to the second floor, came to a room, and knocked on the door.
"Who?"
"Shopkeeper, I am Erniu. A lady said that she had ordered some ink ingots from you before and came to ask if she had arrived." said the waiter.
Squeak~
After a while, the door opened, and a scent of sandalwood wafted out from the house.
"It turns out that Mrs. Wen is here. The ink ingots you requested have arrived. Please come in and inspect the goods first. If you are not satisfied, I will replace them for you." Shopkeeper Hao smiled and saluted. Sideways.
Shopkeeper Hao is fat and his eyes narrow when he smiles, like a Milai Buddha, giving people a friendly feeling.
Mo Lan nodded and walked in.
Shopkeeper Hao waved his hand to Erniu and said, "Go down and do your work."
"Hey!" Erniu responded and went downstairs.
Shopkeeper Hao entered the room and closed the door.
Not long after the door closed, Erniu, who had originally gone downstairs, turned back, carefully came to the door, leaned against the door and listened.
Suddenly, Erniu hurriedly walked downstairs. Although his steps were quick, he didn't make any sound.
As soon as Erniu disappeared around the corner of the stairs, the door opened and Yunzai walked out, closed the door and stood guard at the door.
Er Niu hid at the corner and could only see the hem of Yunzai's skirt. Knowing that he could not get close, he had no choice but to go downstairs.
After going downstairs, Erniu saw several servants in the hall busy, and entered a warehouse while no one was paying attention.
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"How come I haven't seen that boy before?" Mo Lan frowned.
"There is a boy in the store who broke his leg. Business is good during this period, so we can only hire a replacement first. Madam's maid is guarding outside, and everything will be fine." Shopkeeper Hao said.
Mo Lan didn’t pay attention when he heard this and said, “I’m about to be awarded an official position. Is it time you fulfilled your promise to me?”
“Don’t worry, Mrs. Wen, your husband. This time, I will definitely be able to join the staff department," Shopkeeper Hao said with a smile.
After hearing this, Mo Lan was silent for a while and said, "What on earth do you want to do?"
"Mrs. Wen, it's better not to know some things. If you do things for us, I can guarantee that you will be named on the list of husbands. We can also let him rise to prominence and everyone can get what they need, wouldn't everyone be happy?" Shopkeeper Hao said with a smile.
"The things were sent to the palace. What if there is any problem and I am implicated? I don't want to die without knowing how I will die in the future!" Mo Lan said lightly.
"Didn't Mrs. Wen check it out? And the inspection in the palace is so strict. If there is really a problem, do you think you can bring it into the palace?"
"But doing this will not do you any harm. What’s the benefit, what’s the purpose of all this trouble?”
"Mrs. Wen!"
Shopkeeper Hao's face turned cold: "If you are afraid, you don't have to cooperate with me. You can rest assured and promise to help your husband arrange for him to join the staff department. I will definitely do it. After all, you have done something for us. But whether your husband will be promoted in the future depends on his own fortune.
Although your father has two daughters in the palace, he is quite popular. Favored, but your father-in-law made the officials unhappy before, and he is living in the household department, how much can he help?"
Hearing this, Mo Lan was silent for a while, and showed a smile: "Why should Shopkeeper Hao be angry? , I just asked because I was afraid. Since you don’t want to say it, I won’t ask.”
“That’s the best,” Shopkeeper Hao said lightly. …………
“Your Majesty!”
Liu Sanshi saluted and said, “Just now, Sheng Meiren’s family sent someone to deliver something to the palace, including a sachet. But when the slave checked the sachet, I found that although the fragrance emitted by the sachet was the same as before, the content inside the sachet was different. It was replaced with ordinary medicinal materials."
Zhao Xing was a little surprised when he heard this: "Has it been seen by Dr. Wu?"
According to his original guess, Mo Lan gave it to Wang Da. Either there is really nothing wrong with the lady's sachet, and it is just to paralyze the people who are inspecting it in the palace.
After a few passes, the inspectors will relax their vigilance, and then someone in the dark will replace the contents.
However, this replacement should be very hidden, and the problem cannot be seen at a glance.
But it had not been long since the last time Ru Lan brought a sachet to the palace, and this time, it had only been given twice in total.
And Liu Sanshi said that the sachet had been replaced with ordinary medicinal materials.
Liu Sanshi can recognize it, which shows how common the medicinal materials inside are.
The other party couldn't possibly do it so obviously.
Otherwise, the palace inspectors, no matter how careless they are, will still find problems.
"Wu Yuyi looked at it and said that it was just ordinary medicinal materials and there was nothing wrong with it." Liu Sanshi said.
"Is it possible that the medicinal materials this time are related to the previous ones?" Zhao Xing asked.
"The slave also considered whether it could be a primer or something, but the slave asked the imperial doctor Wu, and the imperial doctor Wu said that there is no connection between the two. The medicinal materials this time are ordinary soothing medicinal materials, and the dosage It’s not enough, you have to take it for it to be effective, and just smelling it is of no use,” Liu Sanshi said.
Zhao Xing frowned slightly when he heard this, why things were getting weirder and weirder.
What do the people behind the scenes do? Are they deliberately trying to confuse the public?
"I understand, please step back first and continue to pay attention to the things sent to the palace from the Sheng family." Zhao Xing ordered.
“Yes!” Liu Sanshi saluted and left.
Zhao Xing thought for a while, but didn't understand it, so he just didn't bother to think about it.
However, half an hour after Liu Sanshi left, Yin Hanzhang came to see him and brought a piece of news.
"Your Majesty, I have determined that there is indeed a problem in Moxiangzhai. Wensheng was under his instructions and seemed to be helping her send something into the palace. Today Wensheng returned to the Sheng family and left from the Sheng family Later, I went to Moxiangzhai and had a dispute with the shopkeeper Hao of Moxiangzhai," said Yin Hanzhang.
"Why would she help the people of Mo Xiangzhai?" Zhao Xing asked.
“Because Shopkeeper Hao promised that he could help his husband Wen Yanjing to be named on the gold medal list, and when he was awarded an official position, he could arrange for Wen Yanjing to serve in the Ministry of Civil Affairs.”
“But Wen Sheng was worried about sending him away. There is something wrong with the things in the palace, and I am afraid that I will be implicated, so I went to shopkeeper Hao today to ask about it. "
"That's it!"
Hearing this, Zhao Xing suddenly realized that he had always thought that Mo Lan was involved in it to avenge her mother, but now it seems that he has thought wrong.
Liu Sanshi said before that the contents of the sachet had been replaced, and he was confused.
Based on Yin Hanzhang’s words, it seems that Mo Lan was uneasy and secretly replaced it.
It is very simple to confirm this guess. You only need to check whether Mo Lan has bought any soothing medicinal materials recently, and whether the contents in the sachet will be replaced next.
"Go and check whether anyone from the Wensheng family and the Wen family has bought any medicinal materials recently. If so, find out which medicinal materials they bought." Zhao Xing ordered.
“Yes!”
(End of this chapter)